Chechnya takes first place in number of antipersonnel mines February 20, 2004 13:55 About 500 thousand antipersonnel mines are buried and wait for their time in Chechnya.
First Armenian ombudsperson is woman February 20, 2004 13:37 Larisa Alaverdian, chairwoman of the Foundation Against Illegality, has been appointed the first ombudsperson of Armenia.
Moscow metro blast may have been arranged by Abu al-Walid February 20, 2004 12:46 $4.5 dollars have come in on al-Walid's foreign account the other day, according to special services' information.
Armenia is not ready to start negotiations for Nagorny Karabakh from scratch February 20, 2004 12:43 "We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.
Ban on lessons of peace arranged by center of Chechen culture "Vaynakh" in Yekaterinburg schools February 20, 2004 12:06 The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.
Amnesty International: anti-Chechen sentiment in Moscow post-metro blast February 19, 2004 21:22 According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.
Temporary accommodation center for refugees "Angusht" left without gas February 19, 2004 19:43 The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.
Yeni Musavat editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu stops hunger strike February 19, 2004 16:59 As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.
Films of international Chechnya Film Festival to be shown in Kazan February 19, 2004 16:26 The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).
Moscow Mayor's Office bans rally timed to 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechen people February 19, 2004 15:49 The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.
"Against Numbering of People" association founded in Armenia February 19, 2004 14:59 More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.
Member of presidential Commission on Human Rights asks Luzhkov to place barrier to Fascist ideology February 19, 2004 14:24 Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."
Georgia to declassify KGB archives February 19, 2004 13:57 The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.
Russia opens Chechnya for OSCE February 19, 2004 13:35 The Russian authorities closed the OSCE mission in Chechnya twice: in 1998 and in 2002. They were displeased with the appeals to conduct negations with Chechen separatists and with the criticism of the human rights situation made by the organization.
Armenians living in Georgia want to create their autonomy February 19, 2004 13:32 David Rstakian, who leads the Virk party acting in the region, noted with regret that "representatives of the new Georgian authorities, like their predecessors, do not want to consider this issue even on the level of a proposal."
Chairman of Armenian Liberal Progressive Party urges regional cooperation in South Caucasus February 18, 2004 23:59 The geopolitical situation in the world and economic and political processes in the region have led the Party to the persuasion that the first thing Armenia needs is the development of liberalism and democracy, said Ovannes Ovannisian.
"For Human Rights in Chechnya" group formed in Estonian parliament February 18, 2004 23:38 Deputy groups supporting Chechnya worked in the Estonian parliament of the seventh, eighth, and ninth convocations too.
Abkhazian Foreign Ministry blames Georgia for aspiration to impose economic blockade on breakaway republic February 18, 2004 23:24 In the course of his first visit to Moscow on February 10-12, the new president of Georgia asserted that the territory of Abkhazia was used to convey drugs as transit goods and to expand terrorism.
Militants' base found in Chechnya February 18, 2004 17:02 "The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.
International Helsinki Federation conducts workshops on international law in Ingushetia February 18, 2004 16:42 The goal of such seminars is to train human rights defenders, including lawyers, in methods and mechanisms of human rights protection in international instances.